Free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Practice Questions

Sample CLF-C02 Practice Questions

Browse all 20 free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice questions below.

1. Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

   • AWS Shield
   • AWS Systems Manager
   • Amazon CloudWatch
   • AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

2. A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified to prevent any sensitive data leaks. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

   • AWS Secrets Manager
   • AWS Glue
   • Amazon Polly
   • Amazon Macie

3. Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?

   • AWS Secrets Manager
   • AWS Shield Standard
   • AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
   • AWS Shield Advanced

4. Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

   • Create a new IAM user and share the username and password
   • Use IAM user group to access AWS resources programmatically
   • Use AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) to access AWS resources programmatically
   • Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

5. A company runs an application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the traditional maintenance job of running timely assessments and checking for OS vulnerabilities. As a Cloud Practitioner, which service will you suggest for this use case?

   • AWS Shield
   • Amazon Inspector
   • Amazon Macie
   • Amazon GuardDuty

6. A startup is planning to migrate its on-premises infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Which of the following represents a key benefit of cloud computing that allows the company to automatically scale resources up or down based on demand?

   • Elasticity
   • Latency
   • Durability
   • Availability

7. Which AWS design principle recommends that you design systems to recover automatically from failure?

   • Single point of failure
   • Monolithic architecture
   • Manual intervention
   • Design for failure

8. A company is evaluating the cost benefits of moving to AWS Cloud. Which of the following accurately describes the concept of 'pay-as-you-go' pricing in AWS?

   • You pay only for the compute capacity, storage, and resources you actually use, with no upfront costs or long-term commitments
   • You are required to make large upfront capital investments in hardware
   • You must pay a fixed monthly subscription fee regardless of usage
   • You must sign a minimum 3-year contract to use AWS services

9. Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS Cloud that allows companies to replace large upfront capital expenses with low variable costs?

   • Invest in large-scale hardware purchases
   • Increase infrastructure capacity planning requirements
   • Trade capital expense for variable expense
   • Maintain physical data center infrastructure

10. A company wants to deploy its application across multiple geographic locations to serve users globally with low latency. Which AWS Cloud benefit does this scenario best represent?

    • Global reach in minutes
    • Increase speed and agility
    • Economies of scale
    • Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers

11. A company wants to migrate its on-premises Oracle database to AWS Cloud. Which AWS service can help facilitate this database migration with minimal downtime?

    • AWS DataSync
    • AWS Migration Hub
    • AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
    • AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

12. Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database service that supports both document and key-value data models?

    • Amazon Redshift
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon RDS
    • Amazon ElastiCache

13. A developer needs to deploy a web application on AWS without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which AWS service would be the most appropriate?

    • Amazon EC2
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • AWS CloudFormation
    • Amazon Lightsail

14. Which of the following are benefits of using AWS CloudFormation? (Select TWO)

    • Real-time monitoring of application performance
    • Consistent and repeatable deployments
    • Automated backups of EC2 instances
    • Automatic scaling of database read replicas
    • Infrastructure as Code

15. A company needs to store infrequently accessed data that must be retrieved within milliseconds when needed. Which S3 storage class would be the most cost-effective choice?

    • Amazon S3 Standard
    • Amazon S3 Glacier
    • Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
    • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

16. A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. Which of the following represents a benefit of cloud economics that they can expect?

    • Guaranteeing fixed monthly costs regardless of usage
    • Trading capital expense (CapEx) for variable operational expense (OpEx)
    • Increasing the time to market for new applications
    • Maintaining physical control of all hardware components

17. Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework recommends using automation to make architectural changes?

    • Test at production scale
    • Implement changes through automation
    • Stop spending money on data center operations
    • Drive architectures using data

18. A startup is evaluating the benefits of migrating to AWS Cloud. Which of the following describes the elasticity benefit of the AWS Cloud?

    • The ability to automatically scale computing resources up or down based on demand
    • The ability to use the same infrastructure indefinitely without upgrades
    • The ability to physically access AWS data centers
    • The ability to deploy applications in multiple programming languages

19. Which of the following is a benefit of the AWS global infrastructure?

    • Guaranteed single-digit millisecond latency worldwide
    • The ability to deploy applications closer to end users for lower latency
    • Free data transfer between all AWS Regions
    • Automatic replication of data across all AWS Regions

20. A company wants to understand the key differences between on-premises infrastructure and AWS Cloud. Which statement is true regarding the cloud computing model?

    • On-premises infrastructure provides better scalability than cloud
    • Cloud computing allows you to trade fixed expenses for variable expenses
    • Cloud computing requires larger upfront capital investments than on-premises
    • Cloud computing requires you to maintain physical servers